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‘In phonetics, the sense of movement in speech consists of the stress, quantity, and timing of syllables.’

‘This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland.’

‘The phonetic theory includes the analysis and classification of speech sounds generally and of the sounds of English in particular; sound grouping, accentual features, quantity, junction, assimilation, intonation; questions may also be asked on the teaching of English pronunciation.’

‘The most obvious common phonetic feature may be the linguistically distinctive quantity in both vowels and consonants.’

3Physics Mathematics A value or component that may be expressed in numbers.

‘Entropy is a very difficult physical quantity to understand.’

‘Those ratios are the same for both quantity and value.’

‘Another important quantity is the clustering coefficient C of a vertex.’

‘The quantity / N depends strongly on the scaled mutation parameter M and on whether the number of loci is limiting.’

‘This quantity is called the Mean Square of the velocity.’

‘De triangulis is in five books, the first of which gives the basic definitions: quantity, ratio, equality, circles, arcs, chords, and the sine function.’

3.1[count noun]The figure or symbol representing a quantity.

‘The heat absorbed or released in a reaction depends on a quantity called enthalpy, represented by the capital letter H.’

‘An ellipse is a flattened circle, and the degree of flatness is indicated by a numerical quantity called eccentricity, abbreviated e.’

‘The ‘Richardson number’, a fundamental quantity involving gradients of temperature and wind velocity is named after him.’

‘The quantity w represents the average fitness of the population at equilibrium.’

‘In other words, it was not spontaneously obvious in earlier cultures that zero is a quantity that could be represented.’

Origin

Middle English: from Old French quantite, from Latin quantitas (translating Greek posotēs), from quantus how great, how much.